The thief, the Cross, and the wheel

pain and the spectacle of punishment in medieval and Renaissance Europe

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The thief, the Cross, and the wheel

pain and the spectacle of punishment in medieval and Renaissance Europe

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"Christ's Crucifixion is one of the most recognized images in Western visual culture, and it has come to stand as a universal symbol of both suffering and salvation. But often overlooked in this symbolic language is the fact that ultimately the Crucifixion is a scene of capital punishment. In The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel, Mitchell Merback reconstructs the religious, legal, and historical context of the Crucifixion and of other images of public torture.

The result is an account of a time when criminal justice and religion were entirely interrelated and punishment was a visual spectacle devoured by a popular audience."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
351

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-343) and index.

Published in
Chicago

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
704.9/4936466
Library of Congress
N8257 .M47 1999, N8257.M47 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
351 p. :
Number of pages
351

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL379587M
ISBN 10
0226520153
LCCN
98041726
OCLC/WorldCat
39787107
Library Thing
2047518
Goodreads
91801

First Sentence

"The scene is a place of execution (illus. I)."

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